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Lake Superior Art Association Presents New Children’s Book Launch: Garden Sleeping, Garden Growing

Victor — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 21:10:36 +0000

Media Contact: Sandra Weber
Lake Superior Art Association
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Lake Superior Art Association Presents New Children’s Book Launch: Garden Sleeping, Garden Growing

Celebrating Noriko’s Year in the Garden on the Shores of Lake Superior

Marquette, MI — 9/25/2025 — The Lake Superior Art Association (LSAA) is proud to announce the launch of Garden Sleeping, Garden Growing: In and Around All Year Long, a richly illustrated children’s book by award-winning Marquette artist and author Diana Magnuson. The event will take place on Tuesday, October 21, 2005, from 6:30–8:00 p.m. at the Peter White Public Library Community Room in Marquette, MI.

The latest title in LSAA’s ongoing Artist Series, Diana’s book, Garden Sleeping, Garden Growing invites readers to follow Noriko, a Japanese immigrant, and her niece Dehlia as they tend their garden near the shores of Lake Superior. Month by month, the book beautifully reveals the interconnectedness of nature—wildlife, soil, seasons, and people—woven into the stewardship of the land.

Magnuson, who has illustrated over 100 children’s books and was named Marquette City’s Visual Artist of the Year in 2016, brings both storytelling and visual artistry to life. Her text blends lyrical narrative with educational notes on plants, animals, and ecological practices like crop rotation and composting, making the book a perfect choice for middle-grade readers curious about science, history, and the environment.

The book also honors the real-life Noriko Mauer, who immigrated from Japan in the 1960s and made her home—and her garden—along Lake Superior’s southern shore. Now in her 80s, Noriko’s wisdom and gardening legacy are captured for a new generation through Magnuson’s words and art.

Event Details:
Garden Sleeping, Garden Growing Book Launch
Tuesday, October 21, 2005
6:30 – 8:00 p.m.
Peter White Public Library, Community Room, Marquette, MI
Free admission – open to the public
Join us for this special evening of storytelling, art, and community as Diana Magnuson shares from her new release.

For more information about the book, visit www.DianaMagnuson.com.

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author Jennifer McGraw at Beaumier on NMU campus on Monday May 19th

Victor — Wed, 14 May 2025 19:31:34 +0000

Those of you who may be staying in Marquette until Monday may be interested in UPPAA author Jennifer McGraw who will be presenting a discussion on May 19th, Monday at 2:30 PM at the Beaumier Center on the NMU campus (1401 Presque Avenue, Gries Hall, Marquette, MI)

This event is Father Jacques Marquette 350th Commemoration. The event begins at 8:00 AM. It’s a full day of history presentations and discussions, free and open to the public. https://nmu.edu/beaumierheritagecenter/events.

I would recommend reading Tyler Tichelaar’s review of The Unsolved Mysteries of Father Marquette’s Many Graves as a backgrounder

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meet UPPAA author Jon Stott – “Yooper Ale Trails: Craft Breweries and Brewpubs of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula “

Victor — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 13:34:19 +0000

Local Beer Guidebook Author to Visit UP Brewpubs and Craft Breweries

This June, Jon C. Stott, award-winning writer of beer travel books, will be visiting brewpubs and craft breweries in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula to celebrate the publication of his new book, Yooper Ale Trails (published by Modern History Press, Ann Arbor, MI).

Yooper ALe Trails: Craft Breweries and Brewpubs of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, Stott takes his readers on a virtual tour of 29 unique craft breweries and brewpubs of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. With roadmaps for each ale trail and photographs of each establishment, Yooper Ale Trails comes as the perfect guide for lovers of travel and beer.

In his tour along the roadmaps of his book, Stott will be visiting nine breweries in the U.P.: Soo Brewing Company (Sault Ste Marie), Les Cheneaux Distillers (Cedarville), Tahquamenon Falls Brewery and Pub, LaTulip Brewing (Cooks), ByGeorge Brewing and East Channel Brewing (Munising), Upper Hand Brewing (Escanaba), Blackrocks Brewery and Barrel + Beam Brewing (Marquette)

Asked what he considered the biggest attraction of UP breweries, Stott responded: “The buildings (many of them historic), the scenery along the way, the people who make the beer, and of course, the beer itself – which is very good. There is a wonderful variety of styles. Going to and then sitting in a taproom or outdoor patio enjoying a beer brewed just a dozen or so yards away is a great experience.”

When he made his research tour in June of 2022, Stott met all of the brewers and most of the owners, learning about the variety of styles they created and their attachment to the cities, towns, villages, and even a state park where they brewed. “They were local, and they made what a friend of mine calls ‘loc-ales’.”

“The brewing industry north of the (Mackinac) bridge is vital and growing. Two new breweries opened while I was doing my research last summer and two more are scheduled to open this year. And each time you enter a brewpub and look at the beer list behind the bar, you’ll discover imaginative new creations.”

To find out where to share a beer with the author, chat about ale and lagers, and pick up an autographed copy of Yooper Ale Trails: Craft Breweries and Brewpubs of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, check an updated schedule on Stott’s beer blog: www.beerquestwest.com. The author is available for print, radio, and TV interviews and can be contacted at jstott@ualberta.ca

Schedule of book signings, meet and greet for Yooper Ale Trails (see NEXT page)

DATE	LOCATION	TIME
Thursday, June 8	Upper Hand Brewery (Escanaba)	5:00 pm — 8:00 pm
Friday, June 9	East Channel Brewing (Munising)	5:30 pm to 8:00 pm
Saturday, June 10	Barrel + Beam Brewing (Marquette)	3:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Sunday, June 11	By George Brewing (Munising)	1:00 pm to 3:30 pm
Saturday, June 17	LaTulip Brewing (Cooks)	3:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Saturday, June 24	Blackrocks Brewery (Marquette)	3:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Tuesday, June 27	Tahquamenon Falls Brewery and Pub (Upper Falls)	1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Tuesday, June 27	Soo Brewing (Sault Ste Marie)	5:00 to 7:30 pm
Wednesday, June 28	Les Cheneaux Distillers (Cedarville)	5:30pm to 7:30 pm

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U.P. authors are invited to join us at the “4th U.P. Authors Day Book Sale” on Oct 9th 2021

Victor — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 14:19:03 +0000

The 4th U.P. Authors Day Book Sale will take place at Campfire CoWorks, 132 West Washington in the Masonic building in Marquette on Saturday, October 9^th from 11 am. to 7 pm (Eastern Time). This is a co-op sales event made possible by cost-sharing between participating UPPAA authors. If this event is as successful as we hope for, we expect to field 3 to 4 of these at different locations around the U.P. in the coming years.

The space can hold as many as 25 author tables, with additional space available if needed.
Authors can get in at 10:30 am. for set up.
Authors are expected to be on-site until 7:00 pm (except for necessary breaks)
You must be a current UPPAA Member to participate. If your membership has lapsed, you’ll be required to renew.
Exception: if you are participating as a nonprofit agency, inquire to UPPAA for a membership requirement waiver.
Early Bird Price: $25 until Labor Day (September 6th, 2021).
$30 from Sept 7th to October 1st.
No registrations after October 1st.
Limit: TWO tables per author
No refunds for cancellations after September 6th, 2021

For publicity purposes, you’ll be asked to name your hometown and the book or book series you’d like to have named in press releases.

If you have questions about the event itself, please contact Gretchen Preston

If you have questions about the CampFire CoWorks building, such as the availability of electric outlets, please contact Jasmin at (906) 767-0079

Parking is available at the Bluff Street Ramp behind the Masonic building.

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Volkman reviews Tyler R. Tichelaar’s “Kawbawgam: The Chief, The Legend, The Man”

Victor — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 15:44:57 +0000

by Victor R. Volkman, Senior Editor, Modern History Press

TITLE: Kawbagam: The Chief, The Legend, The Man
AUTHOR: Tyler R. Tichelaar
PUB DATE: Nov. 2020
PUBLISHER: Marquette Fiction.

Kawbawgam by Tyler R. Tichelaar, PhD, is the first woke history of Native Americans in Upper Michigan that I have read. I’ll go so far as to presume that it was awakening for the author as well, despite or because of having been a 7^th generation resident of Marquette, Michigan’s Queen City of the North. He confesses to having grown up with the myth of Ojibwa tribesmen welcoming the landing of white men in what would become that city and essentially handing them the keys to a vast mineral and timber wealth without a second thought. Indeed, a reenactment of this event has happened in recent history as the city celebrates its Founders Day. It’s not an absurd notion at all, considering there was no significant Indian-on-white warfare or hostilities in the central U.P. However, as a culture that didn’t believe you could own the land any more than you can own the sky, it was the beginning of a downward slide that would span the better part of two centuries.

For myself, I grew up with an equally biased but opposite view of Native American culture in Michigan. Having all of my mom’s family living in Mackinaw City, we visited the fort there as archaeologists were uncovering mysteries in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Positioned under the base of the Mackinac Bridge, which is of course the closest juncture between the two peninsulas, it has broad panoramic views and the recreated wooden fortress was enchanting to visit as a small boy. And so I was weaned on Attack at Michimilimackinac – 1763, the grossly abridged edition of Alexander Henry’s two-volume memoir Travels & Adventures in Canada and the Indian Territories between the years 1760 and 1776. In it, it describes the cold-blooded plot to wholesale murder an entire garrison of American soldiers by luring them outside the protective walls to be spectators at a game of lacrosse. I’m sure it cemented my fear of the Other, growing up as I did in one of the most privileged white suburbs of Detroit.

At any rate, there is plenty of history to reconcile and atone for as a white citizen of Michigan. Kawbawgam: The Chief, The Legend, The Man is a great start for anyone willing to confront the true history of the colonization of the U.P. and the ruthless exploitation of its indigenous peoples. This is not Tichelaar’s first outing into U.P. history; he is broadly recognized for writing accessible histories such as “My Marquette” and “When Teddy Came to Town” as well as the sprawling Marquette Trilogy, a Micheneresque rendition of 150 years in historical fiction. The Kawbawgam book uses the chief’s extended family as a lens to view the span of history from about 1815 to 1905. Indeed, unraveling the birth and age of Kawbawgam is one of the central mysteries of the book and is approached from several angles. As an adult he was on hand for the famous landing of settlers in Marquette and by his old age his image was being exploited as a tourist curiosity in his role as the putative “last full-blooded Indian Chief of his tribe” and a model of a “good Indian.”

Tyler R. Tichelaar

Tichelaar easily debunks the full-blooded claim as it was widely known even then that Kawbawgam’s mother was of Scottish descent. Indeed, the French-Canadians had been widely intermarried with the Ojibwe at Sault Ste. Marie (some 136 mles east of Marquette) for generations. Other myths the author tackles include the false notion that Kawbawgam lived to the ripe old age of 102 in robust health. The truth painful to watch as Kawbawgam descends from beloved chief of the local tribe to being exiled to an Indian settlement north of town and finally to a city park where Peter White takes pity on him and builds him a frame house. The final public scene of Kawbawgam’s life is filled with a cruel irony, when he is hauled out to a picnic for visiting reporters where he sits in isolation, completely blind at this point and having never become fluent in English, he sits stony-still like a man who has become a statue and merely the icon of living flesh. By Tichelaar’s account he died probably around the age of 86.

Central to the story portrayed is the relationship of Marquette pioneer Peter White to Kawbawgam. White was apprenticed to a storekeeper at Mackinac Island as a teenager and quickly became a master of the Ojibwa language. As such, he was much in demand as a scout and it was almost inevitable that he would join the expeditions through Lake Superior and into the interior of the U.P. As White grew in stature, he became a shrewd real estate investor, businessman, and increasingly the liaison between white people and the Ojibwa in general and to Kawbawgam in particular. White wasn’t the first white man to fetishize the “full-blooded Indians” myth and add decades of age to portray extreme longevity. Tichelaar nails this precisely by labeling it “imperial nostalgia.”

Charles Kawbawgam

It is the cutting through this smoky haze of imperial nostalgia that Tichelaar does yeoman work, going back to original sources where most contemporaries have simply regurgitated newspaper reporting of prior decades and the embellished yarns of Peter White’s well-meaning if hopelessly biased accounts. The sources fully documented and footnoted include census records, church baptism, marriage, and death records, original court documents, as well as letters and contemporaneous newspaper reporting. Tichelaar concedes that this work won’t be the last word on Kawbawgam and instead hopes that it will perhaps revive scholarship and bring new sources to light. His 3+ years of meticulous research and fact-checking bring authority to the work.

There’s much more to Kawbawgam’s story than I can possibly relate here, from his role in helping deliver mail hundreds of miles by snowshoe to his family’s role in the “discovery” of iron ore near Marquette and its exploitation. Kawbawgam was also involved in the several disastrous treaties that culminated in the total loss of all land rights in the U.P. save a few reservations in the west. Living under the constant threat of his entire tribe’s removal to Minnesota, capitulation and appeasement were the only practical options for the Ojibwe. The book also covers in some detail the removal of tribes from the Soo and how its eponymous locks both enabled the export of iron ore and destroyed a tribe including its sacred burial grounds. This is just a small taste of Tichelaar’s treatise on Kawbawgam and I believe that anyone with even a casual interest in how the U.P. got to be the way that it is in 2020 can take the time to explore the journey of a man who bore witness to its formative years in white history.

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UPPAA to feature Writer’s Workshop in 2020

UPPAA Webmaster — Thu, 12 Sep 2019 20:19:58 +0000

UPPAA Announces First Pre-Conference Writers’ Workshop

Bethany Leonard, Red Ore Writers (Crystal Falls, MI)

Join us in Marquette for UPPAA’s first pre-conference workshop for fiction writers from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday, June 5, 2020. You will review key concepts, engage in writing exercises, share pages for critique, and edit your writing with support from authors and educators, Bethany and Doug Leonard of Red Ore Writers. You will receive feedback on six of your written pages–three through group critiques during the workshop and three you submit in advance for written edits and comments from the facilitators.

You will get to know other writers as you participate in learning activities on showing vs. telling, less is more, character development, dialogue, and giving and receiving feedback. These topics will be explored through a variety of methods engaging you with the large group, small groups, in pairs, and individually. Plan on bringing your laptop or your favorite pen as there will be time at the end of the day for you to concentrate on your own writing to apply the workshop concepts and the critique feedback. Facilitators Bethany and Doug Leonard, in combination, are published in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, have many years of experience teaching including college writing, corporate workshops, and editorial coaching, and have presented at state, national, and international conferences.

Workshop registration will open in early 2020 and attendance will be limited to the first 20 people who register
Your UPPAA Membership must be current to egister for this workshop.
There will be a small fee to attend the pre-conference workshop which is not included in your UPPAA Membership

Watch the spring newsletter and the UPPAA website for more details as they become available. If you have specific questions, please write to info@uppaa.org

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NMU Lecture series #1 — My Twenty-Year Self-Publishing Odyssey – Lessons for Aspiring Authors

UPPAA Webmaster — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 19:40:16 +0000

UPPAA Speakers Bureau Presents: Anne Miller – Author of The Last Photograph

Presentation Title: “My Twenty-Year Self-Publishing Odyssey – Lessons for Aspiring Authors”
When: October 1^st, 2019, 7:00pm – 8:30pm. Admission is free.
Where: Lydia M. Olson Library, NMU campus

Every writer dreams of becoming an overnight success, but it doesn’t always happen that way. And sometimes it doesn’t even happen with a publisher. I’ll discuss how I took the scenic route to becoming a self-published author, all the potholes and detours I endured along the way, and how I still surprise myself each and every day growing and changing in ways I never could’ve imagined.

I may not be on The New York Times Bestseller list yet, but you can say you knew me when. On our odyssey, we’ll be hitting all of these waypoints:

The Birth of a Wisconsin-Born, Yooper-Bred Author
Destroying the Self-Publishing Snob
Avoiding the Self-Publishing Magicians
Surviving the Free-Fall of Doubt
Keeping the Author Within You Alive in the Real World
Success and the New Hurdles That Await You
The Metamorphosis of an Author

About the Author

Anne Miller is the youngest of four children. She was born in West Allis, Wisconsin and moved with her family to the U.P. when she was two years old. Her passion for writing began when she was ten years old when she wrote her first novel, The Summer Murder, and she hasn’t quit since.

She attended the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay for two-and-a-half years where she majored in English-Creative Writing with a minor in Communications.

After college, Anne excelled at several different day jobs throughout the years, including grocery store clerk, hotel night auditor, and hospital housekeeper. She is currently a customer service representative/bank teller. All of her job positions have enhanced her storytelling skills.

Anne is also a die-hard Green Bay Packers fan. She enjoys reading, and her latest obsession is the Outlander series of novels. She lives in the same small town she grew up in. The Last Photograph is her first published novel. She is currently living in Iron County. Visit her at http://www.millerslastphotograph.com

About the Upper Peninsula Publishers and Authors Association (UPPAA)

The UPPAA was founded in 1998 as a 501(c)6 nonprofit corporation with the goal of educating and empowering authors of the U.P. Among its outreach programs are a Speaker’s Bureau, a contest for young writers (grades 5 to 12), and an annual journal The U.P. Reader. Learn more at www.UPPAA.org.

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2019 UPPAA Conference Schedule Announced!

UPPAA Webmaster — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 17:55:34 +0000

Peter White Public Library

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Always FREE for Members, only $15 for non-Members

UPPAA Annual Conference, Peter White Public Library, Marquette, MI
Saturday, June 1, 2019

10:00-10:30 – Registration in the Community Room
10:30-10:45 – Opening remarks, President Tyler Tichelaar, Community Room
10:45-11:45 – Keynote, Karen Dionne, Community Room
11:45-12:45 – Audiobook Adventures, Victor Volkman, Community Room
11:45-12:45 – Publishing 101, Lloyd Wescoat and Aimée Bissonette, Shiras Room
12:45-1:30 – Lunch, Community Room/Hall
1:30-2:30 – Business Meeting, including election, drawing, release of UP Reader, presentation of short story contest awards, Community Room
2:30-3:30 – The Art of Hawking, Community Room
2:30-3:30 – Novel Writing Panel, Shiras Room
3:30-4:30 – Marketing Panel, Community Room
3:30-4:30 – Children’s Books, Shiras Room
4:30-5:00 – Networking and Cleanup, Community Room

Session Descriptions

Karen Dionne: What I Learned from Writing My Breakout Book

Karen Dionne, author of The Marsh King’s Daughter

When Karen wrote The Marsh King’s Daughter, a dark psychological suspense set in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula wilderness, she had no idea of the extent of the wild journey she was about to embark upon. Praised in The New York Times as “Subtle, brilliant and mature . . . as good as a thriller can be,” The Marsh King’s Daughter was selected as a 2018 Michigan Notable Book, took home the Barry Award and the Crimson Scribe Award for best novel, was named one of the best books of 2017 by iBooks, Hudson Booksellers, Powell’s Books, The South Florida Sun-Sentinel, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The Irish Independent, Library Journal, Shelf Awareness, and many other booksellers and reviewers, and is in development as a major motion picture.

And yet The Marsh King’s Daughter is Karen’s fourth published novel. What made this book different from the rest? How can writers use the lessons she learned about writing standout fiction to elevate their own work? In this presentation, Karen will share the six key elements she believes made all the difference.

Karen Dionne is the USA Today and #1 internationally bestselling author of the award-winning psychological suspense novel The Marsh King’s Daughter published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons in the U.S. and twenty-five other countries. She is the co-founder of the online writers community Backspace, and a member of the International Thriller Writers, where she served on the board of directors. Karen has been honored by the Michigan Humanities Council as a Humanities Scholar, and lives with her husband in Detroit’s northern suburbs. www.karen-dionne.com

Victor R. Volkman: Audiobook Adventures—New Media and Sales Channels for All Authors!

In this session, we’ll take you from understanding the growth possibilities of the audiobook marketplace to the nuts-and-bolts of finding and hiring a narrator, preparing your manuscript for narration, quality assurance, distribution, and marketing of audiobooks. Bringing your books to market as audiobooks allows you to leverage existing content, discover new audiences, and get your own piece of the $2.5 billion market with an annual growth rate exceeding 20 percent. We’ll cover considerations for both fiction and non-fiction in adult and children’s audiences.

Victor Volkman is the CEO of Loving Healing Press Inc. and its imprints, including Modern History Press, which is the publisher of the U.P. Reader anthology series. In the past sixteen years, Victor has published more than 200 books in print. He has served on the UPPAA board since 2010. His own audiobook adventure now includes sixteen audiobooks available on Audible.com, Amazon, and Apple iTunes.

Lloyd Wescoat and Aimée Bissonette: Indie Publishing Road Map: Details, Deadlines, and Directions for a Successful Publishing Journey

Lloyd Wescoat

Join bookseller and small press owner, Lloyd Wescoat, and attorney and author, Aimée Bissonette, for an interactive session on Indie Publishing. We’ll cover a multitude of items successful authors need to consider, including how to contract and work with publishing professionals (editors, book designers, illustrators, e-pub vendors), obtaining ISBN numbers, book printing, pricing, getting your books placed with bookstores, contest and award submissions, when and whether to set up your own independent publishing entity, and more. Bring your questions and a willingness to share your experiences. Handouts and a resource list will be provided.

Lloyd Wescoat is the owner of an independent bookstore in Copper Harbor, Michigan and has been a retail bookseller since 1981. As a partner in Mudminnow Press, she has stretched her wings to bring new books to market, considering wholesale sales, distribution, and those maddening steps toward publication and promotion.

Aimée Bissonette

Aimée Bissonette is a lawyer, teacher, and writer from Minneapolis, Minnesota. She has published books for both the children’s and educational markets. In her legal practice, Aimee (recently retired) worked with numerous authors and illustrators, advising them on all aspects of trade and indie publishing. Aimée has presented as a guest lecturer for Highlights Foundation at its Self or Indie Publishing workshop. Look for her article, “Dissecting the Self-Publishing Contract,” in Writer’s Digest’s 2015 Guide to Self-Publishing.

Kenn Grimes: The Art of Hawking

You’ve written a book. You’ve even gotten it published. Now what? The Art of Hawking workshop will help you discover how to maximize sales when doing a book signing or participating in author or book fairs. This workshop will focus on three phases of successful “hawking”: Presentation; Solicitation; Expectation.

Kenn Grimes is the author of the popular Booker Falls Mystery Series (Cozy Cat Press), a set of three cozy mysteries set in the Keweenaw Peninsula in the 1920s; as well as three other books, Camptown . . . one hundred and fifty years of stories from Camptown, Kentucky (Arbutus Press), Ancestors (Enigma House Press-Hydra Publications), and his self-published novel, The Other Side of Yesterday. He is a member of UPPAA, Mystery Writers of America, Historical Fiction Society, and Michigan Writers. Last year, Kenn participated in thirty-one book signings, author or book fairs in Michigan, Indiana, and Kentucky, including the Midwest’s premier event, the Kentucky Book Fair.

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Carrie Pearson: Children’s Book Industry 201: Agents (vs. Schmagents), the Submission Process, and A Little Contract Stuff

For writers and writer/illustrators of children’s books. This session continues where we left off at UPPAA 2018 and focuses on the agent decision process (do I need one? how do I get one? what do they do for me?), what happens when a manuscript goes on submission, and offers a little contract information (the big clauses, and I don’t mean Santa). Carrie’s experience spans thirteen years in the children’s book industry. She’ll share why she’s had three agents (third one’s the charm!) and help you think about your next career moves.

Carrie Pearson grew up as a troll, but after twenty-three years in Marquette, she can’t imagine living anywhere else. She feels that being a children’s book author represents the best merger of her education, occupations, and passion. She holds a BA in early childhood education, taught at University of Michigan’s preschool and then moved into the business world for fifteen-plus years. She is now a full-time writer for children and owner of a consulting business in the children’s book industry that focuses on preparing writers to connect with the right agent and/or editors. She is a regional advisor for the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) and is represented by Kelly Sonnack at the Andrea Brown Literary Agency. Carrie has traditionally published three picture books and her next, a picture book biography of Dr. Virginia Apgar, launches in fall 2020. Carrie would love to connect with you on Twitter @carrieapearson, Pinterest carrieapearson, and through her website www.carriepearsonbooks.com.

Novel Writing Panel: Fabricating Fabulous Fiction

A panel of authors: Debbie Frontiera, Terri Martin, and Naomi Rawlings, will present ideas on how setting, plot, and characters weave together to turn fiction into an unforgettable tapestry that draws in readers and keeps them turning the pages. Authors will present on each aspect from their own experiences. This will be followed by questions, answers, and discussion so those attending can gain more insight into how to improve their fiction writing.

Deborah K. Frontiera grew up in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. From 1985 through 2008, she taught in Houston public schools. A “migratory creature,” she spends spring, summer, and fall in her beloved U.P. and the dead of winter in Houston, Texas. Three of her books have been honor or award winners. She has published fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and children’s books, and is the newsletter editor for the UPPAA. For details about her many books and accomplishments, visit her web site: www.authorsden.com/deborahkfrontiera.

Terri Martin and her husband moved to Upper Michigan nearly twenty years ago and have no desire to live anywhere else. Terri is currently a regular contributor to U.P. Magazine (Porcupine Press) where she finds an outlet for her humorous writing. Additionally, her feature articles and short stories have been published in magazines and literary journals. She has a published middle-grade children’s novel, A Family Trait, with a second book she hopes to publish soon. Terri served as editor and layout for a literary newsletter blog affiliated with the Finnish North America Literary Association. She worked in higher education from 2005 to 2016 in various roles including administrative assistance, classroom instruction, tutoring, and grant-writing. She earned a master’s degree in English from Northern Michigan University in 2013. Terri can be contacted at terri4045@gmail.com.

Naomi Rawlings is the author of eleven historical Christian novels, including the Amazon bestselling Eagle Harbor Series. She first started writing in 2008, and to date, her books include four traditionally published novels and seven self-published novels. She has been nominated for three publishing awards, enjoys coaching other writers, and moonlights as a novel editor. She lives with her husband and three children in the Copper Country. www.naomirawlings.com.

Marketing Magic Roundtable

In this panel discussion, we’ll touch on the three legs your book needs to stand on to be successful: Amazon keywords, an author platform with a media kit, and breaking in to the burgeoning eBook marketplace.

Victor Volkman is the CEO of LHP and MHP with more than 100 authors and illustrators under contract. He has published more than 200 books since 2003. In his segment, you’ll look at a selection of tools using live demonstrations of products, keywords, and reports. You’ll find out how a $10,000 investment over the course of two years turned into $60,000 in gross sales on Amazon.
Charli Mills is a born buckaroo who managed company brands for twenty years. In 2014, she founded an imaginary place at CarrotRanch.com where real people from around the world gather to write 99-word stories. She teaches authors professional development skills and writes stories about the veteran experience and forgotten history.
Naomi Rawlings is the author of eleven historical novels, including the Amazon bestselling Eagle Harbor Series. She has been nominated for three different publishing awards, and her books include four traditionally published novels and seven self-published novels. She lives with her husband and three children in the Copper Country.

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An Enduring Christmas by Ragene Henry – A Holiday Read

Victor — Mon, 26 Nov 2018 23:24:15 +0000

The Marquette Regional History Center presents:
An Enduring Christmas by Ragene Henry – A Holiday Read
December 5, 6:30-8:00 pm
In 1850 when the first Christmas season approached the small community of Marquette, citizens were running out of food and waiting on a supply ship that their survival depended on. The 5thH Youth History Club will take us back to that time using the book Enduring Christmas by local author Ragene Henry. You will share the citizens’ tenacious spirit and enjoy an evening of holiday fun. Refreshments and a taffy pull will follow. Free! Donations appreciated. For more info visit marquettehistory.org or call 906.226.3571.
Jessica “Red” Bays
Rental and Store Manager
Promotions and Membership Coordinator
Marquette Regional History Center
145 W. Spring St.
Marquette, MI
Celebrating our 100 Year Birthday!

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Next board meeting – Nov 2nd

Victor — Thu, 01 Nov 2018 07:07:38 +0000

Welcome to the Peter White Book Fair sponsored by UPPAA!

Board Meetings – Members welcome!
Open meetings the first Friday of the month at the Peter White Library, Marquette
Next meeting: Nov 2nd, 2018 from 12-1:30 EDT.
To join the conference
Dial: 712-432-6299
Enter your passcode: 483921

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